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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 18 Dec 2005 20:53:17 -0800, "lariadna"  wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On 16 Dec 2005 14:47:46 -0800, "lariadna"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >>Steuard Jensen wrote:   
   >> >> It's not entirely clear to me just   
   >> >>how human the descendants of King Frank would have been, either (since   
   >> >>his children apparently all married non-humans).   
   >> >   
   >> >King Caspian marries a lady who had some relatives   
   >> >who were stars, so there are some who are humanlike.   
   >> >Maybe dryads and dwarfs fit that category too.   
   >>   
   >> Dryads are nature spirits.   
   >>   
   >   
   >In Narnia, the dryads can separate from their trees and assume human   
   >form, though I don't know if they do that often.   
      
   As does the "retired star", though in the Cosmic Trilogy they appear in a more   
   abstract form, perhaps because Lewis was writing for an adult audience.   
   >   
   >> Dwarfs are from folklore, I'm not sure whether they would be regarded as   
   >> human.   
   >   
   >Cornelius, the tutor of Caspian, is a half-dwarf (and a  half-human).   
      
   A bit like Elrond "halfelven", perhaps, and then there is the choice Arwen has   
   to make to become moral if she marries Aragorn. Lewis doesn't tell about   
   Cornelius's parents much, though.   
      
      
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